winston-cloudwatch-transport

This is a rewrite/modification of winston-cloudwatch. This module allows for multiple instances of the cloudwatch transport to be used with Winston.
Allowing you to leverage winston categories for logging to multiple CloudWatch Log Groups/Streams.

Installation

npm install winston winston-cloudwatch-transport

Configuration

By File

AWS configuration works using ~/.aws/credentials as written in AWS JavaScript SDK guide.

By Environment Variables

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = <Your AWS Access key>
AWS_SECRET_KEY = <Your AWS Secret Key>
AWS_REGION = <Region containing your CloudWatch Log Group>

Usage

Options

logGroupName logStreamName name - Optional Defaults to "cloudwatch" + logGroupName + logStreamName level - Optional Defaults to debug awsAccessKeyId - Optional if provided by environment variable AWSACCESSKEYID or ~/.aws/credentials/ awsSecretKey - Optional if provided by environment variable AWSSECRETKEY or ~/.aws/credentials/ awsRegion - Optional if provided by environment variable AWSREGION

Example

var winston = require('winston');

winston.transports.<Transport Name> = new require('winston-cloudwatch-transport', {
    logGroupName: <Log Group Name>,
    logStreamName: <Log Stream Name>
});